Egyptian police killed two gunmen
who carried out last month's attack on a bus carrying Christians
in Minya governorate to the south of Cairo, the interior
ministry said on Saturday.

Police, helped by the military, found the gunmen in Assiut
governorate, which lies to the south of Minya, it said in a
statement. They were in possession of three automatic rifles,
one shotgun and an unspecified amount of ammunition.

Security forces also found one of the vehicles used in the
the Nov. 2 attack, which killed at least seven Christians who
were returning from baptising a child at a Coptic monastery in
central Egypt.

The mobile phone of one of the victims of the attack, Kamal
Yousef Shehata, was also found, the ministry said.

On Nov. 3, a day after the attack near the Monastery of St
Samuel the Confessor in Minya, security forces killed 19
militants suspected of involvement.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for last month's
attack, which took place at exactly the same spot as a May 2017
attack that killed 28 Christians. Islamic State also claimed
responsibility for that attack.
(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Yousef Saba; Editing by
Alexander Smith and Gareth Jones)

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